Photos around the home

Tiger_lily · 03-01-2009, 19:24

Good evening all! :-)

I live with my boyfriend in a really nice house etc but there's on thing missing for me: cheesy photos on the mantlepiece!

I would like a nice photo of the two of us and possibly a couple of family etc displayed in nice frames, but my boyfriend says that's just weird... is it? Do you have personal photos displayed around your home? (We have no kids to show off though so I'm talking literally us two, parents etc etc)

(p.s. sorry if this has been done before... the search facility is hard to use unless you drop lucky on a good search term imo!!

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olorin · 03-01-2009, 19:27

It's no odder than having photos of other things you may care about. I have photos of my cats, my parents and aunt, my neighbours have their photo (well technically a photo of an oil portrait) of one of the Sikh gurus, my parents have a photo of each other on their nightstands. Seems normal enough to me.

Plain Talker · 03-01-2009, 19:33

yes, I have a really lovely set of photos of me and my sisters over the last forty years, from us being tots up to one taken about ten years ago, showing us growing and becoming adults.

I had a set done for my sisters fortieth birthday, and had them framed, beautifully as a gift for her. I've got pics of my parents, too, as well as some amazing pics, in B & W, from the 1910's and 20's and 30's of my grandparents and great grandparents, in some fantastic costumes.

I think they look fabulous grouped together in matching frames.

The family story stretches over a hundred years, from my grandpa who was born in 1900 and fought in the first world war, to the birth of my own first grandchild in the year 2000. The picturess scan almost every decade, up to the present. That's nearly 12 decades of photographs.

bagger · 03-01-2009, 19:36

What is really tacky is those huge portrait sized pictures hanging on the wall....

Small-ish framed photos on the fireplace or bookcase etc is fine. But then that's only my personal taste.

Cyclone · 03-01-2009, 19:38

I have a few of my best holiday snaps in frames, and a digital one with loads of photos that cycle through. I have a large one of a brilliant snowscape that I took on the bedroom wall.
I also have a few on canvas that aren't my photos but ones that I liked (you'll have seen the prints in places like Matalan).

teeny · 03-01-2009, 19:38

Because my family live in the Isle of Wight and Kenya, I love to have photos to remind me what they blook like, I miss them like crazy and its a good way of them being part of my life here. They have pictures of us with all our animals my neices and nephews love them ,just as we love seeing them grow up.

Aries22 · 03-01-2009, 19:43

No l dont have family photo's on show at all, l dont like being watched. I do enjoy looking through the Albums and Video's once in a while.

Ouija · 03-01-2009, 19:53

I don't think it's weird. I like having pictures on the wall, rather than on surfaces, as they just seem like clutter to me then. But that's just my personal taste. I mainly have picture of my mum and my son.

jellybellybean · 03-01-2009, 20:51

Me and my OH live alone (although im pregnant) and we have a framed photograph of us together on the mantle piece. We also have both my scan pics in a frame on display. When our little one's here i want to have a nice canvas done of the three of us 2 put on the wall. Other than these I wouldn't go crazy with pics of parents etc everywhere!

jfish1936 · 03-01-2009, 22:56

Trouble is, these photos are so small!
Go to the Louvre and see some of the Napoleonic era paintings: one of those showing your family, and there's one wall tou'd never need to wallpaper again!

skinz · 03-01-2009, 23:16

I have 3 prints of H.R.Giger and an original piece of work done by my daughter.

Any pics of my family I keep in albums. Their very personal to me and I like to keep it that way.
Whenever I see pics of weddings or kids at school I find them fake and to be honest soooooo boring....which in reality that's what they are.

Cyclone · 04-01-2009, 10:16

Do you mean that's what you feel when you look at them in an album? Or just when you see them in someone elses house?
If it's the latter, I don't suppose they care, they see them everyday, you only see them when you visit.

Kthebean · 04-01-2009, 10:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiger_lily

Good evening all! :-)

I live with my boyfriend in a really nice house etc but there's on thing missing for me: cheesy photos on the mantlepiece!

I would like a nice photo of the two of us and possibly a couple of family etc displayed in nice frames, but my boyfriend says that's just weird... is it? Do you have personal photos displayed around your home? (We have no kids to show off though so I'm talking literally us two, parents etc etc)

(p.s. sorry if this has been done before... the search facility is hard to use unless you drop lucky on a good search term imo!!

)

We have pictures of our family and our friends with us in them, for example one in my bedroom of me and my sister, but not of just the two of us. I dont see why that would be necessary, unless you want to remind yourself of a nice holiday or whatever.

Ms Macbeth · 04-01-2009, 10:30

We have a few smallish family photos in nice frames scattered around the house, increased since the grandchildren arrived.

We have one nice monochrome one on the wall, it was the first professional one done of my granddaughter with her mum and dad. But no way would I have huge coloured family photos meant to imitate oil paintings - I really don't like them. Just my personal taste.

Our son is keen on photography, and has some of Hong Kong & Venice that he's framed and they look amazing.

Cyclone · 04-01-2009, 10:40

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Originally Posted by Kthebean

We have pictures of our family and our friends with us in them, for example one in my bedroom of me and my sister, but not of just the two of us. I dont see why that would be necessary, unless you want to remind yourself of a nice holiday or whatever.

Or you're very forgetful

Agent Orange · 04-01-2009, 10:47

I dont have pictures around the house at the moment, but I keep trying to get around to buying some frames to put some nice pics of my family etc. The thing is, most of my family members hate having their picture taken so I am somewhat limited on the photo front.

Nothing weird about it at all.

skinz · 04-01-2009, 10:48

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Originally Posted by Cyclone

Do you mean that's what you feel when you look at them in an album? Or just when you see them in someone elses house?
If it's the latter, I don't suppose they care, they see them everyday, you only see them when you visit.

When I look at my own in an album I get an overwhelming sense of nostalgia or affection...I don't think it has anything to do with pride. I'm sure if anyone looked at my albums or pics on display they wouldn't look at them in the same way. I don't have a need to show my pics because of pride. Bit like showing off my curtains to the neighbours. Says more about us rather than what we display. That's not an argument against choice though.

Cyclone · 04-01-2009, 11:01

I don't put photos up for other people to look at, I spend far more time in my house than anyone else does.
So if you like seeing a particular picture, put it up on the wall and stuff the visitors, it'll make you feel affection every time you walk through that room, which is probably several times a day.
It's nothing to do with pride (unless it's a photo you took that's particularly good, then it might be), it's about putting a few key photos on view so that you see them more often!

mrmist · 04-01-2009, 11:19

The biggest photos that we have on display are not of us or the family at all, they are just shots that we like. The only photo of us is from our wedding, which is nice.

It's really up to you though. I don't think it is odd to display family photos if you want to. Though having 15 of them squeezed onto a mantelpiece might be pushing it a little.

Dave650 · 04-01-2009, 11:39

I wouldn't like photos of me up. I have pics of my bikes, niece family and some holiday ones though.